Continuity mistake: When Dan approaches a higher CIA agent saying he needs "A couple hundred thousand bucks", the other guy gets up and walks to a cabinet to put his prayer rug in it. It cuts to Dan, and the reflection in the glass of the world map behind him shows the guy with the rug repeating the action of putting away his rug. (01:10:05)
Quantom X
21st Oct 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
21st Oct 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Continuity mistake: Maya is with a translator questioning a guy that is handcuffed to a table. The translator pushes a picture to the man who picks it up and then lies it down. He identifies the man as Abu Ahmed and taps the picture with his finger on his left hand. The shot cuts to a close up, and suddenly his left hand is up on the bar with fingers fidgeting. (00:31:40)
21st Oct 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Continuity mistake: Holding Ammar down, Dan tells Maya to grab the bucket. Her being uneasy about the whole situation, she begins walking towards it, but is nervously fidgeting with her shirt like she's trying to button it up. Then the shot changes angles and suddenly her arms are crossed and still. (00:07:45)
21st Oct 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Continuity mistake: As the movie starts, Ammar is being tortured and questioned. The men drag him to the middle of the room and begin tying his arms up. The shot from behind Ammar when they finish show that the ropes are holding his arms high enough where his shoulders are up, with his arms making a Y shape over his head. It then switches to show security camera footage of Ammar from the front as Dan is watching. This view shows that Ammar's arms are not held as high, with his shoulders slumped and his arms bent at the elbows with his forearms held up, making him have a W shape instead of a Y. (00:03:15)
20th Oct 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Continuity mistake: As the guy in the car is driving into the base, Jessica excitedly runs to a dirt road and pulls out her phone to text Maya. The side shot shows the antenna is extended. It cuts to a view by her shoulder and suddenly the antenna is pushed in. (00:58:25)
20th Oct 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Continuity mistake: After Ammar says he won't talk, Dan and the masked man drag him to the ground onto some mats. Dan then gags Ammar's mouth with a wet cloth of some sort. The shot cuts and suddenly Ammar is screaming with nothing in his mouth. (00:07:35)
17th Oct 2013
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
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Chosen answer: Most likely to conceal her naturally bright red hair. If that fact is known, it would make it easier for the enemy to identify and target her, either for surveillance, to be kidnapped, killed, etc.
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